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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The cytology professor that helped Barbara on Saturdays also did what for her?
(a) He helped pay for a new bike for Barbara.
(b) He was her thesis advisor.
(c) He was her priest.
(d) He was a fellow researcher on a paper.

2. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Nucleus order regulator.
(b) Nucleolar organizer region.
(c) Negative opening region.
(d) Nucleous orange region.

3. One of the few people that was interested in what Barbara had to say was Lotte Auerbach who was an animal geneticist from where?
(a) Cold Spring Harbor.
(b) Yale.
(c) The University of Edinburgh.
(d) Cornell.

4. What was the name of the cytology professor that gave Barbara private courses on Saturdays?
(a) Lester Sharp.
(b) Thomas Belling.
(c) Marcus Rhoades.
(d) Rollins Emerson.

5. In what year did McClintock and her student, Harriet Creighton, publish a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the corn was considered to be the endosperm tissue?

2. In Chapter 10, who did Stadler quote to support one of his arguments?

3. In what month did a letter arrive from Barbara's old friend, George Beadle, suggesting she come to Stanford for a visit?

4. Who was the theoretical physicist who was trained by Niels Bohr?

5. When Barbara went to visit Stadler in Missouri, she went to look at the corn that they had. Barbara noticed that they were calling the corn what?

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